Michael Torresan is Director of the Authentic Living Institute (ALI). Since 1987 hundreds of students in the Pacific Northwest have benefited from ALI’s proven method and path to access their Essential Nature. Formerly a certified teacher in the Ridhwan School, Michael has twenty-two years of experience with the Diamond Heart Training including personal work with A. H. Almaas, originator of the Diamond Approach. Michael has done pioneering work on developing a body of teaching dealing with the superego, or inner critic, and also teaches the Enneagram.

“I am grateful to Michael Torresan, former teacher in the Ridhwan School, for first organizing this material (on the superego) and presenting it as a body of teaching in workshop format. He was an inspiring and provocative model for assisting others in confronting their judges.” – Byron Brown, author of Soul without Shame: A Guide to Liberating Yourself from the Judge Within, Ridhwan Teacher and senior student of A. H. Almaas

“Being a practitioner of insight meditation, I am delighted to discover how much the ALI work and Vipassana add to each practice's means of dispelling delusion. I am further pleased to see Jack Kornfield write that he could commend the work of Michael’s teacher, A. H. Almaas, ‘to anyone interested in living the life of the spirit’.”
– Magrit, ALI student for one year

“I am forever grateful to have Michael as my guide in the work. He is extremely skillful at presenting the knowledge in an articulate, sensitive, and lighthearted way.”
– Carla, ALI student for six years